Many leftists and libertarians already share some commitments: opposition to war, empire, and corporate privilege; support for civil liberties and grass-roots empowerment. However, many leftists and libertarians also embrace, and often share, various mistaken assumptions.

Left-libertarians challenge these assumptions while embracing the commitments leftists and libertarians share. They seek to demonstrate that it’s reasonable both to oppose structural poverty and to favor freed markets, to seek both workplace dignity and robust protections for just possessory claims, to embrace freedom of association while opposing arbitrary discrimination, to foster both peace and economic liberty, to link rejection of war and imperialism with support for peaceful, voluntary cooperation at all levels.

By endorsing leftist and libertarian concerns and challenging assumptions that make it difficult for leftists to embrace libertarianism and for libertarians to become leftists, left-libertarianism offers a provocative vision of an appealing politics and a world marked by greater freedom and fairness.

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comprehending the power of voluntary action (the only kind that's morally justifiable if you believe in peace, love and liberty, and also a spiritual principle of most teachings?), as both ethical behavior and effective social policy … that is the essence of being a true libertarian. Adding the "left" to it merely placed the main focus on civil/social matters and peace, rather than on the economic issues.

Well, what is a "social" matter versus an "economic" issue? It seems to me that, for all the enormity of an error they're making when they try to reach out or pander to the left, "left-libertarians" focus just as much on economic issues as ordinary libertarians do. They're just more "leftist" (and, frankly, more consistently libertarian) on said issues than ordinary (right-wing) libertarians are.